Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Schauspiel - Ausbildung für zeitgenössisches Theater (Studienabschluss Absolvent/in)
Acting - training for contemporary theatre (Absolvent/in degree)
Universität der Künste Berlin - Studiengang Schauspiel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Award
- Absolvent (A)
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personRegelstudienzeit: 8 Semester
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Eight-semester acting course of the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, ending in the 'Absolvent/in' award. Applicants prepare four short scenic pieces for a pre-selection and then attend a multi-day in-person entrance test.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Voice & speech, Movement
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- German
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Absolvent (A)
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Universität der Künste Berlin
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Regelstudienzeit: 8 Semester
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Teaching location
- UdK Berlin - Schauspiel
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Pre-selection: four scenic pieces of at most five minutes each - a compulsory-author monologue (new author each year), a classical monologue (text written before 1960), a contemporary monologue (after 1960) and a self-written role; a song/chanson may be added
- Self-tape
- No
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Callback
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Pre-selection and multi-day class-like entrance exam normally take place in person from mid-February to early March; invitations with the compulsory author are sent about mid-December.
- Interview
- Conversations on the work samples, motivation and interests
- Prior education
- School-leaving certificate (Zeugnis des Schulabschlusses); special artistic talent
- Language requirements
- German C1 (CEFR)
- Intakes
- Sommersemester (application 1 October - 1 November)
- Deadlines
- 01. Oktober bis 01. November für das Sommersemester (2026)
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semesterbeitrag (total in the regular re-registration period, winter semester 2026-27)Mandatory fee · mandatory | €377per term, Wintersemester 2026-27 | All students | 16 October 2026Source |
| Bewerbungsgebühr je AntragApplication fee · mandatory | €30one-time, 2026 | All students | 16 October 2026Source |
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)